SciFi Channel played their production of the second two books in Frank Herbert’s Dune novels this week. I don’t watch TV news, but I watch SciFi channel, so the start of that miniseries reminded me of the current crusade: good intentions, usurping corrupt Padishaw Emperor, restoring oppressed peoples to former glory, but then there’s the excesses of the Fremen, Paul’s sister going mad, and it all ends with his daughter marrying the deposed emperor’s grandson and we’re back at where we started.
Okay, so you can’t become a scary precog when you use too much oil.
And I don’t see one of the twins marrying any of Saddam’s grandsons, but stranger things have happened.
Meanwhile, I was able to stand listening to KPFA for all of about three minutes. The announcers were more interested in the size of the protests than reporting on what’s going on in Iraq, you know, the place we’re pick one: invading/liberating/making Bechtel’s new sandbox. They were preening like the bloody Scud Studs of the earlier war.
Meanwhile, if you’re in the States, stick with old-fashioned Protestant distain rather than gung-ho take the streets action. Yeah, I’m sounding like a broken record, but blocking the streets doesn’t win hearts and minds here. And do you really want to give an opening to blackguards like Savage and Horowitz?
Of course, if you’re in Europe, where you take your politics seriously, you folk rock the house for us. We’ll have to be content with our candlelight vigils.
Fortunately KALW had the BBC feed going. And I can listen to CBC Radio on QuickTime.
So lets hope for good fortune so that the civilians, the hapless Iraqi conscripts, and the various volunteer soldiers get through unscathed.
So support your local progressive candidate for the House. Find cheer in that a Republican-controlled Senate decided that drilling in ANWR isn’t a great idea. Buy some French brie, and listen to the Dixie Chicks.
Finally, remember that if we’re fighting tyrrany abroad, it’s worth bringing up tyrany at home.
Thus endeth the freaking lesson.
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